Well today's been kind of a bust. Getting a patreon back up and running is a pain that I'm not feeling like dealing with at the moment, and I tried to update I8U to what I thought I wanted it to be; only to find that I wasn't feeling it at all. So, going forward, this is the new plan:
1) Deal with the pain in the butt and get Patreon back up
2) Continue forwards with the I8U Beta. Yeah, the thing I said I wasn't going to work on anymore. Turns out Helix isn't dead after all!
3) Finish up the three characters I've already put out.
4) Find new vore sounds.

All so confusing. Although this isn't the road I necessarily saw myself going down, at least I know what road I'm on again at least.
More on I8U to come, I suppose.

https://twitter.com/Alsnapz/status/.....726044673?s=20
https://twitter.com/Alsnapz/status/.....735864320?s=20
https://twitter.com/Alsnapz/status/.....406269954?s=20

So if you missed this here tweeteroni and cheese, my current plans are a bit muddled because life hasn't left me with many spoons to work with. Go ahead and check the above tweets for some status updates.

TL;DR: Was going to make Aggron, didn't think it would work out or be an enjoyable project so I scrapped it. Life has been really hectic these past couple of weeks so I either haven't had the time, energy, or privacy to work on flash at all.

But, once life calms down a bit and I get my place back to myself again I'm pondering once again starting up regular Thursday streams once more and opening my patreon back up. I was pondering making something else for Barbftr but I'm thinking I might just work on the proper version of I8U 'cuz there's stuff I wanna animate that I really just can't do with Barb.

For now though, if you'd like to donate and help me out and get me back on the right track, donations through my Kofi would be SUPER helpful right now ;3; https://ko-fi.com/alsnapz

https://ko-fi.com/alsnapz
Money has been a bit tight this past month or so, and I've actually started getting back into animating again so I reckoned it was about time I put something up again. Unlike with my patreon, I won't be offering spots in a discord server or anything, but I will continue to try to post frequent updates on what I'm doing on my twitter.

As for my future plans, here's what I'm thinking:
1) I wanted to finish up the Anthro Komodo. This part is done!
2) I want to make one more barbftr character. Something more simple, like Komodo; I was thinking of making an Aggron, actually. Although I want to keep my more serious stuff to original characters only, I see barbftr as kind of a simpler and less-confined playground for making things.
3) Once I'm content with that, I'll probably get back to work on I8U.

>Last I8U Teaser was posted back last September
Jeeesus that was forever ago. Time does fly. D:

So basically here's what's what, since people still poke in and comment about I8U from time to time, wondering how it's doing, where it's been, how I'm doing, etc; so here's the rundown on all that fun stuff.

Basically, while I still dabble on animations once in a great while, I haven't made anything particularly great in a good long while now. I haven't really touched I8U animations due to a general lack of interest in working on it, along with being a fair bit more busy as of late than I have been in the past. Although I feel like my animation quality is overall improving, the amount of effort it now takes me almost makes it really hard for me to have the energy to finish projects to the end.

My original plan for I8U was to make three characters and release it to the public, and then proceed to add on to it from there. I finished maybe just about one character instead, and haven't found the willpower to finish any of the other ones I've started working on.

I might still release it in its incredibly unfinished form, if only because the one character that is finished is still pretty good, I think.
We'll see. I gotta remember how to get all that working online again at some point. >->;

Anyway, so that's what's what. I'm still alive, although I don't really upload much on FA anymore. I'm a liiiittle more active on Twitter, but as far as animations go, probably shouldn't expect too terribly much from me if you're expecting much at all.

I'm still alive. Animating is coming back to me here and there; I'm unsure how the work on I8U will continue and progress because I'm not necessarily sure what I want to do with it.

I don't know when I'll release what I have, either.

Ok so, if you've been following my journals the past few weeks, it's painfully obvious I'm not getting any animation work done basically at all. Either due to my job, the weather, or other unrelated issues, I have had absolutely 0 motivation to work on animating what-so-ever for the past month or so.

Considering that starting next week work is going into overdrive mode, I'm going to call it here and put work on I8U off until probably January 2018. If my mojo returns and I stop feeling so down in the dumps all the time sometime soon, I'll post it here and more likely on Twitter. For now though, consider this bird on animation hiatus.

Peep.

Well this is a tad late and for the most part, I think it's past Friday in most of the world. But, I said that I'd try to update on Fridays, so here I am.

Sadly, there's not really anything to say. Progress has basically come to a halt- as it stands, I can't get myself motivated at all to work on I8U or animations at all for that matter.
I'm hoping that this slump will pass soon.

Progress has been very slow. Work has kept me pretty damned tired and some stress brought on by car problems has demotivated me enough that I haven't really wanted to work on I8U at all in the past few days. Hopefully this will be resolved soon, and I can get back to work.

Character Progress (Approximately Completed)
Foxxo (85%)
Orcarex (20%)
Talia (5%)

The biggest problem I foresee, aside from just actually making the characters and animating them, is going to be finding new sounds. I'll probably reuse the ones from Panftr, but a new collection definitely wouldn't hurt either.

Also, I'll see if I can't remember to make updates like this a weekly kind of thing, either on Fridays or Thursdays.

Bad news! Progress has been really slow. Like, really, really slow.
I8U is still being made, and I often have updates for people on my patreon discord and I also post teasers and little updates on Twitter. These are the best ways currently to keep up with development.

That being said, I've hit another animating dry spell where I haven't really had any motivation to work on animations. Animations themselves are coming along well, but due to the effort I'm now putting into them, even simple ones tend to take forever.

The good news is, what I do have done I'm really quite proud of. All the systems I wanted in I8U are in place.
Features:
-Helix can now block enemy attacks
-Added an info/tips panel to the title screen so hopefully things make more sense
-Enemy grab counters work
-Some enemy attacks can be countered, allowing you to hit them for increased damage for a time
-Feels more like a game
-Includes a foxxo

Once I'm done with the first enemy I'll probably start splitting my efforts between two at once; hopefully being able to switch between the two will allow me to not burn out as fast.
I don't know why I ever thought I'd be able to get three enemies done in a month. I probably should have never said that. =3=; But, it at least was enough to get me started out proper.

That's about it! Sorry for the delay, this beast will be ready... y'know. Eventually.

Against my better judgement, I'm going to go ahead and announce my next project.

I8U
-What is it?
A: Successor to Panftr.

-What does that mean?
A: It's another vore game! But this time, not with Pan. Probably won't have 'gestion in it still, nor will it have any of the sexies. I want to focus on making the game more... playable, if that makes sense? So enemies will actually be defeatable.

-So who is the lil' star then?
A: This feller: https://twitter.com/Alsnapz/status/.....07984563056641
And no, you won't be able to switch skins or anything.

-August 31st?
A: Yup. That's the plan, at least; I want to have at least 3 enemies "complete" at that time, which I'm going to consider the release date. I might push it back, because a month isn't a whole lot of time really.

-Who'll the enemies be?
A: Issa secret. o3o

-Oh c'mooon.
A: Fiiine. If you wanna see, try to catch my streams! I'll probably be working on them there.

-Can we get early access?
A: Yes, actually.

-Wait, really?
A: Yeah, really.

-No wai!
A: Yeah, way! If you join my patreon and have discord, you'll get access to a server! I'll be uploading early animations and give early access to I8U Characters as I go along.

-Ok, that's all pretty cool.
A: I think so!

So my primary hope and plan is that I can get three enemies out by August 31st; I'm starting a new job this Sunday, and am unsure of how draining it's going to be. But, I've already got plans for two characters in my head; and tentative plans for the third.

1) Will you be working on Panftr stuff anymore?
-Probably not! I feel like I'm done with panftr and that whole theme. My next project will, hopefully, be a bit more inclusive in subjects.

2) Do you have a project in the works?
-I've an idea for one. It'll be another successor to panftr, as you might expect; but development has been delayed due to engine issues. Flash is OK, but people are already having a lot of troubles getting Panftr to work locally, and flash itself is kind of a dying breed. At this point, I feel like flash might disappear sometime soon in the future- and if it does, I don't want all my work to disappear or become defunct along with it. As such, I'm getting help from Z, but until he develops something I can work with I'm kind of stuck.

On the same point, I intended for my patreon to be more useful for bigger projects like panftr enemies, but due to the worry about flash, it's kind of a graveyard right now.

Will you ever take comissions for Ftr stuff?
-Sadly, probably not! I've considered taking mini-comissions in which I just add functions and animations onto existing enemies (which would be the most likely scenario) but working within the files like that can get complicated and hard to keep track of. Not to mention returning to something that might actually be a year old can be a hassle all of its own.

Do you want to set up a regular streaming schedule?
-Yes, actually! I think regularly scheduled work hours for animating would be good. That being said, my will to actually animate wanes a lot. Each stream would probably only be around 2 hours long, maybe 3- and that's assuming I have something I really want to work on. Also, I still haven't seen my work schedule, and I might be acquiring a new job soonish. So it's hard to say if I could set up anything on a "regular" basis just yet.

Anyway, those are just some thoughts. Comments appreciated, I can throw more thoughts at you that way.

Just got back from vacation! Planning to stream it up at 5PM CST
https://picarto.tv/alsnapz

https://www.patreon.com/alsnapzftr

So, after a lot of thinking, I've finally caved in and created a patreon! If you ever wanted to support a starving animator birbo, then now's your chance!

Benefits:
1) Help a birbo not starve
2) Get access to a Birb Discord, from which you can see animation WIP's before they're uploaded!
(Yes, this may include future ftr projects)

That's really about it! I'm sorry if you don't use discord, it was really the only simple way to do it that I could think of.

Thanks!
-Al

Hey hey! So, now that Liz is done, my work on animations will probably be much smaller in scope, and as such I might release smaller animations from time to time. If I like them enough, I'll post them here! If I don't think they're worth a post here, I'mma just post them to my twitter!

https://twitter.com/Alsnapz

HEY GUESS WHAT
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17371095/
 imaginaryz is the man.

Friggen stop that, aight?
I get it, you're excited. You wanna see her. It's been like, a BILLION years since I released something.

But seriously, stop asking over and over again. Watch the streams, judge for yourself. I don't have a set date, I don't have a working schedule, and working on animation projects is far from my top concern. You'll get it when it's done, it's as simple as that. I can't even give you an estimation because there's a good chance that I might just ignore the project for weeks depending on life circumstances.

SHE'LL BE HERE SOON. Until then, just be patient, and catch streams when I have them because I will stream it.
Stop asking if she's done, stop asking when she'll be done, stop being so impatient.

Y'all are driving me bonkers, again.

Edit: For those of y'all that aren't asking and are being patient, keep up the good work.

https://picarto.tv/alsnapz
https://picarto.tv/alsnapz
https://picarto.tv/alsnapz
https://picarto.tv/alsnapz

Question:
How do ya'll prefer your stream announcements? Should it be a submission? Just a journal? Journal and submission?

My uploads are so preeeeeeeeeetty now

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22737606/
Western dragon! Really pretty cool, I like it a lot!
Sadly it contains digestion so... bleh. x3x; That's the only thing keeping me from adding him to the official list.